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The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from May 15-17, 2025. Presentations by McGill-affiliated students included:

PhD student Austin Kraft was the invited student speaker at this year’s 32nd Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association annual meeting (AFLA 32), which took place June 2鈥�4 at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. The title of Austin’s talk was “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak Questions”, and the full program is available here.

McLing is happy to congratulate 51吃瓜网alum Gui Garcia (PhD ’17) on receiving the Canadian Linguistics Association’s Early Career Researcher Award! This award is presented to “an individual early in their career who has made outstanding and original contributions to the field of linguistics.” Congratulations Gui!

The Department of Linguistics hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, which was held June 2-6. The conference attracted about 250 people, most of them from universities, but also a good number of members of Indigenous communities involved in language documentation and revitalization attended. About 10% travelled from abroad (mostly the US, but including […]

As part of ongoing collaborations with students and teachers in the immersion program at the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Onkwaw茅n:na Raotiti贸hkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC), 51吃瓜网and KORLCC affiliates organized the second Iakwarihw铆:saks mini workshop, showcasing projects that have come from collaborative research with first-language speakers this year. This work has been supported by Jessica Coon’s SSHRC […]

Current 51吃瓜网affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year’s Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2鈥�6 at McGill. Talks by current 51吃瓜网linguists included: Posters included: This year’s CLA also included three mini courses, including one led by Austin Kraft and Wishe Mitchell Mittelstaedt titled “Data management, data storage, […]

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year鈥檚 award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Emma Custer & Sophia FlaimLara Riente Memorial Prize: Terrance Gatchalian Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award:聽Kira Tess PavlidisAward for Academic Leadership:聽Max BlackburnAward for Department Citizenship:聽Ina ZengAward for Excellence in Research:聽Natalia Feu

Zlata Odribets and Laurestine Bradford have been awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant for Tlingit fieldwork this summer! The grant will fund a two-week trip to Teslin, Yukon this August. The students will work together in intensive sessions with local elders. Zlata will investigate indefiniteness, while Laurestine will focus on lexical aspectual distinctions. Laurestine has […]

PhD students Katya Morgunova and Willie Myers received a Jacobs Research Fund grant to study Kanien’k茅ha (Mohawk; Iroquoian) for their respective dissertations. The grant covers elicitation with first-language speakers in Kahnaw脿:ke, Qu茅bec in collaboration with the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Onkwaw茅n:na Raotiti贸hkwa Language and Cultural Center. Katya will be looking at finiteness in embedded clauses while Willie will […]

51吃瓜网is hosting the聽2025 CLA conference, which will take place June 3-6th. In addition to a聽full program of talks and posters, this year the conference is hosting events including a special session on聽transcription challenges for Indigenous languages, a panel on AI tools聽for under-resourced languages and a full day of intensive crash courses聽on various tools for […]

Jessica gave a talk at TED AI in San Francisco in the fall, “Lessons from linguistics for the future of AI”, which was featured last week in McGill’s Arts Newsletter. The full talk is available here.

The 17th Toronto-Ottawa-Montr茅al Semantics Conference took place on May 10 at the University of Ottawa. 51吃瓜网was well represented by PhD students Laurestine Bradford (Cumulative Closure vs. Iterativity in Tinglit) and Austin Kraft (Accounting for Javanese Numerals’ Dual Roles), MA student Sama鈥檃 Salama (Decomposing the Definite Article) and alumni Zahur Ashrafuzzaman (Toward a Formalization of […]

Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and Pragmatics, 18 (4).

McLing is very happy to welcome Myriam Lapierre as an incoming faculty member in the 51吃瓜网Linguistics Department. Myriam will be officially joining us in January 2026. Myriam鈥檚 research combines phonological theory, original fieldwork, articulatory and perceptual phonetics and in-depth typological surveys. Her theoretical work centers on formal models of representational phonology and, in particular, […]

PhD student Austin Kraft鈥檚 abstract, 鈥淧seudoclefts in Land Dayak questions,鈥� has been selected as the best abstract by a student or junior scholar of the upcoming 32nd聽conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA). Austin will deliver the talk as a plenary speaker at AFLA in Jakarta, Indonesia, this summer.

The聽Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab)聽is meeting聽Thursday, May 8 at 4PM in Rm 404 of聽Thomson House聽on the 51吃瓜网Downtown campus. We will have three presentations on fieldwork puzzles, followed by a social hour. Talks include: The event is open to all linguists across Montreal! If you’d like to join the mailing list, please email聽willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca.

51吃瓜网linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington. Presentations by current 51吃瓜网affiliates included: 51吃瓜网linguists of past and present gathered for a picture:

A new paper by Morgan Sonderegger and M谩rton S贸skuthy (UBC) titled “Advancements of Phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis” has just been accepted to the Journal of Phonetics. A preprint is available here. Abstract: Phonetic research in the 21st century has relied heavily on quantitative analysis. This article reviews the evolution of common […]

Congratulations聽to Ada Tur, Gaurav Kamath and Siva Reddy! Their paper, 鈥楲anguage models largely exhibit human-like constituent ordering preferences鈥�, was selected to win a Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics SAC award at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics聽(NAACL 2025). The paper appears here:聽https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670.

Wei Zhang聽(PhD, 2024) has received an Assistant Professor position at the聽School of Foreign Studies聽at Nanjing University.聽 Congratulations, Wei!